Simulate: Illuma
Wednesday 03 Sep 2008
DigiEffect's latest plug-in set includes five lighting tools that will appeal to compositors who don't want to splash out on GenArts Sapphire.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
Monday 01 Sep 2008
Lightroom 2 is the third major release of Adobe’s digital photograph sorting, Raw image-processing and enhancement program for pro photographers.
DreamColor LP2480zx
Thursday 28 Aug 2008
Developed with Dreamworks Animation, the DreamColor LP2480ZX is the first monitor to offer a 10-bit-per-colour output at a price that’s affordable to many creatives.
Adobe Acrobat 9
Monday 25 Aug 2008
The latest incarnation of Adobe’s primary PDF-creating and editing application stresses multimedia integration and presentation -- it even plays Flash natively.
Panasonic Lumix FX500
Thursday 21 Aug 2008
The Lumix FX500 is a sophisticated camera with a brushed metallic surface and a 25-125mm Leica 5x optical zoom lens, but its key feature is the three-inch touch-screen display.
Media Composer 3.0
Monday 18 Aug 2008
As part of Avid’s new strategy, the latest version of Media Composer arrives at around half the price of its predecessor, and includes a whole lot more in the box, too.
The Foundry Tinderbox 1, 2, 3 and 4
Thursday 14 Aug 2008
The Foundry’s four Tinderbox collections are aimed at high-end VFX houses – this is shown in their price, and the fact that they’re available with floating licences.
RE:Vision Effects Effections V7
Thursday 14 Aug 2008
Effections is a bundle of RE:Vision Effects plug-ins, which are generally creative and technical tools, rather than whizzy artistic filters.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite 2007
Thursday 14 Aug 2008
The Magic Bullet Suite 2007 combines two core colour-correction plug-ins – Looks and Colorista – with two helpful utilities: Frames and Instant HD.
Noise Industries FxFactory Pro 2.0
Thursday 14 Aug 2008
FxFactory Pro is an unusual set of plug-ins. Firstly, it’s available for Final Cut Pro and Motion, but not After Effects (though an AE version is due ‘soon’).
GenArts Sapphire 2.0
Thursday 14 Aug 2008
Sapphire is the daddy of VFX plug-in collections. Its high-end toolset has found favour with firms producing VFX for Hollywood feature films – and almost every car ad on TV.
Boris Continuum Complete 5
Thursday 14 Aug 2008
Boasting over 180 filters, Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) covers many bases, including traditional image processors, generators and compositional tools.
Nikon D60
Monday 11 Aug 2008
The next step up from the Nikon D40x, the D60 adds advanced in-camera editing, including Nikon’s D-Lighting technology and an in-camera stop-action-animation mode.
Universal Type Server
Thursday 07 Aug 2008
Universal Type Server is a font-management system that aims to make things easy for small design studios, while providing a huge amount of flexibility for big companies.
Magnetar SDX
Monday 04 Aug 2008
The Magnetar SDX is a whopper of a workstatio, measuring 62cm-x-22cm-x-425cm and weighing only slightly less than a baby elephant. If you think that Apple’s Mac Pro is too girly, then this is the workstation for you.
3D Toolbox
Thursday 31 Jul 2008
Microspot 3D Toolbox is a bit of a curiosity: it’s a truly modular 3D application. You start off with a free base application that’s useful in its own right as an object viewer...
Vision Q64 Overdrive
Monday 28 Jul 2008
CAD2’s Vision Q64 OverDrive is plain, inexpensive, but still relatively powerful and an ideal first buy for a 3D artist taking their first career steps.
Adobe Director 11
Thursday 24 Jul 2008
Director has been notable by its absence in the successive Master Collections, so it’s refreshing to see this old stalwart of the multimedia-authoring brigade decked out in Adobe’s new livery.
Thecus N3200
Monday 21 Jul 2008
Pitched at both home users and small businesses, the N3200 offers the best combination of price and performance. Its three-drive set-up may look odd, but it works fine.
LaCie 2big network
Monday 21 Jul 2008
Encased in dull grey metal like much of LaCie’s line of larger hard-drive systems, the 2big network would sit well next one of Apple’s pro-level Macs.
